RE:u.s./canada grass wars i cannot believe, 30 years after joining norml, that this is still an issue. don't americans have more important things to spend their tax money on? LEGALIZE IT.

"Camerer also tested patients with lesioned orbitofrontal cortices. (These patients are unable to generate and detect emotions.) Sure enough, because these patients couldn't feel fear, their brains treated both decks equally. Their amygdalas weren't excited by ambiguity, and didn't lead them astray. Because of their debilitating brain injury, these patients behaved perfectly rationally. They exhibited no bias for certainty."

i wonder if its possible to have this done as elective surgery?

It is important to note while that in the Grass video, the US Agent claims that pot is 30% stronger today, it is well known that the tests from the 60s that he is citing were heavily skewed using nonrepresentative pot samples. The USA has a long history of tightly controlling scientific study of marijuana and the reports that they do cite and allow tend to be flawed to the extreme. Studies done outside of US Government involvement show that the THC levels haven't changed as is always claimed by the DEA and others. This is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to US Authority figures making false claims about marijuana.

Oh for crying out loud Sam - back in the day I could smoke joint after joint of Panama Red or Acapulco Gold - about the best that could be had on the left coast in the late 60's early 70s and still be functional. I can't even make it through a medium spliff of righteous BC Bud without becoming comatose. The THC content is way higher. It takes far far less amount of pot to get you off now.

i agree with doug. i don't think you need a chemistry set to see that todays dope is considerably stronger than what was available in the 60s and 70s. i still don't think it should be illegal.

Jonathan, Maybe you and Doug are just luckier than Sam is. ;)

jo ann, LOL.:)

Damn, typekey is down for maintenance.

Much of what's written about marijuana comes from political beliefs, not scientific. Humans have used marijuana for centuries without apparent harm. There's a lot of evidence for positive effects of THC in marijuana, but anything can be bad for you if you consume it in a dangerous way. If you drink enough water you can drown!

Marijuana may slow alzheimer's. Gee, I thought pot made one lose memory. Come to think of it, I don't remember if I've ever smoked the stuff!.

having the good fortune to live in the home of righteous BC Bud, and having sampled quantities of herb from many places and throug many eras, (being an old guy), I have no doubt but what much of the pot on today's market is of higher quality (higher THC count) than bud of the past.

The growers know what they are doing now and the really gifted growers are producing bud of fantastically good quality with very high thc counts.

using clones of high yeld plants and being very selective with pollenation etc, controlling environment to force the plant to produce much more THC and resin than it would in the wild, has seriously changed the quality of some of the product that is out there.

But a lot of stuff is still being grown outside in the old fashion ways. With better quality seed than was commonly available thirty years ago but still growing 'wild' in the sense that there are no climate controls, just nature. The quality will depend on the weather during the growing season.

meaning that when you average out the quality of stuff being grown and sold all over north America, I suspect that THC increase is less than one would expect if one is regualry blessed with premium grade stuff.

Even here in BC there is still plenty of old style hippy pot around. Uneven and combined development, some of the best and some of the worst available in the same place.

I'm not a user myself, I don't like drug culture and I'm not that libertarian, but lately I can't find many good reasons why pot should be illegal.

I support the reasoning that pot should be regulated and be put on the same scale as alchohol. I don't think it should be any more or less.

eg. If you smoke a joint and your perception is impaired, you should not operate a vehicle. If you drink alchohol and your perception is impaired, you should not operate a vehicle.

Personaly I've tried pot a couple times, I don't like to get stoned, but I do take a puff when a joint is passed around by friends and helps take the edge off my social anxiety. If history as taught us anything about this issue, it's that prohibition doesn't work.